Word: musics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Approached by a producer from MP3.com after one of his performances during the summer, Bennett read up on the site and decided to compile a number of recordings made during his teenage years into an album. With a 30-hour repertoire of music to choose from, Bennett attempted to include a varied mix of classical music, including pieces from the contemporary, Baroque and Romantic periods...
...only an audio CD but can also be played as a CD-ROM which features a video presentation, photographs of Sean, the liner notes and each of the eight tracks in MP3 format. Visitors to www.mp3.com/Sean can also download samples from Teenage Hysteria. Bennett believes that downloadable music is transforming what historically has been a very political industry. "By having the option of putting out a downloadable song for most everybody, it really makes it more of a free-market system. Ultimately it will insure that those musicians who do have the most to bring to the stage will...
...Bennett's first exposure to music was from his mother, who taught him how to play piano by ear. At the age of five, he did a rearrangement of "It's a Small World" with his tape recorder, inserting other Disney music into the catchy tune and rewriting the words. His arrangement won him a prize in a Disney-sponsored contest, and, more importantly, showed him that music was to be a huge part of his life...
...performing privately for the President of Poland, Lech Walesa, at the age of 17. "He is someone I grew up idolizing. He freed Poland from the Communist government. I had always grown up admiring his strength of character and to get to play a program of all Polish music (Chopin), there was something kind of magical about the whole thing," he stated...
...Still, Bennett has enjoyed his time at Harvard and believes that his liberal arts education has encouraged him to grow as a musician. "Everything you learn about philosophy, psychology or history is directly applicable in some way to how you play, how you view the arts, how you view music, how you view the relationship between the audience and the performer...